Almost 82,500 of these total cases were recorded in people under 50 years old and a majority (53,822 cases) were found in unvaccinated individuals.
... 117 deaths among people in England who had the delta variant with the majority being in the over-50 age group.
There have been eight fatalities among the under-50s with six of them in unvaccinated individuals and the other two in people who had received one dose.
First, the article gives two sets of unvaxxed case numbers, so someone failed math or reading comprehension. Second, they omitted the fatality totals for people over 50 with and without vaccines...why?
So for the under 50 crowd, the case fatality rate for the unvaxxed was 6/53,822 = 11 per 100,000 people. For the under 50 and vaxxed (once) crowd, the CFR was 2/(82,500-53,822) = 7 per 100,000 people.
Now, 7 is less than 11. But there are differences in the underlying size of the groups. So, bringing in a statistical test, per this page, those proportions are statistically equal (the p-value is over 0.5 so it's a pretty solid level of equivalence), meaning the vaccine offered no relative protection against death.
The REAL question, however, is why didn't the reporter disclose the over 50 year old split of vaxxed and unvaxxed fatalities? Surely that data would be helpful, right?
